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Zechariah

Zechariah

Visions of the “New Jerusalem” and the restored community, encouraging the rebuilding the temple. The messiah, the prince of peace will come lowly and humble and will establish the messianic reign.

Isaiah

He found hope through the Davidic monarchy. Building on the concept of a just and righteous king, he envisioned a future king coming from the line of David who would usher in a time of peace and prosperity for all Israel and other nations as well

Amos

a shepherd and vine keeper, in the time of security and prosperity he brought a “gruesome message of destruction and death for the nation’s leaders and the rest of the elitist class including the military. It was coming, imminent and irreversible.

Ezekiel

Speaking among the Exiles, he declares a new people will be raised to from the lifeless valley of bones! The seemingly hopeless situation of Israel was the beginning of a new action God was initiating among his People.

Zephaniah

The Day of the Lord will a day of destruction that will be total. The great day of the Lord which traditionally, had been understood as God’s vindication of Israel, will instead be the judgment day for Israel, and all the rest of the nations

Habakkuk

He faces despair and disappointment as he experienced God’s silence in the face of violence and victory of the more wicked nation over the less wicked one. He was asking God why the reformed nation is rewarded suffering and defeat instead of blessing? Yet even then though the Lord’s hand is not so evident the just will live by faith.

Hosea

He addressed Israel as he would a beloved unfaithful wife. Israel has forsaken God for Baal. With this comes a whole set of values where Israel pursued materialistic accumulation and individualism, over the pursuit of justice and the well-being of the community

Jonah

He wanted to die, only to be shown how ridiculous his view of God was. He was so concerned about a gourd whom he did not at all care for, and to believe that God is not concerned about other peoples and nations aside from Israel.

Elijah

He proved his message that Yahweh is the true God of Israel by challenging the prophets of Baal into a contest in Mt. Carmel.

Micah

The rulers of Jerusalem are like cannibals in their greed therefore Jerusalem will be judged, for it was built by bloodshed. But the God’s people will be restored and will dwell in peace and security “under the shade of their own fig trees. “

Josiah

A reformer king in whose reign the book of the law was found

Saul

Described as a rejected king

Elisha

Prophet Elija’s successor

Jezebel

An ardent devotee of Baal, this queen tried to kill all prophets of Yahweh in Israel

Ahab

King who coveted Naboth’s vineyard

Solomon

Known as the wisest king

Absalom

David’s son who killed his own brother and initiated a rebellion against him

Bathsheba

Woman with whom David committed adultery

David

Great but not a sinless king

Hebrew

In which language was the Hebrew Scripture originally written?

Abraham

The great father of the Hebrew people with whom God initiated the promise of land, descendants, and blessings.

Exodus

The most important event in the Old Testament which became the basis of Israel’s understanding of God and God’s moral demands.

Joshua

He succeeded Moses and was the one leading the people in their entrance to the Promised Land.

Samuel

The last of the judges and opened a new chapter in the history of Israel, the monarchy

Deuteronomistic history

A group of historical books advocating the idea of one people, one God, and one temple

Jubilee

It is a year set apart to let the slaves go free, to cancel debts and to return purchased land to its original owner, in other words, to let God’s people make a fresh start

Naboth

Vineyard owner who was framed to death for refusing to sell his sacred inheritance of land to the king

Assyria

An empire which was instrumental in the judgment of the Northern Kingdom Israel

Babylon

An empire which destroyed the Southern Kingdom Judah.

Zerubbabel

He was the leader of the first batch of returning Jews who started the reconstruction of the Temple and the Jewish community in Judah

Songs of songs

This book/writing is a love song that celebrates the love of a woman and a man.

Ecclesiastes

A writing wherein the teacher presents a view that everything under the sun is temporary.

Job

It is a wisdom writing that raises the issue of the suffering of the innocent

Psalm

It is a book attributed to King David and is known for its use as a “Hymnbook of the Second Temple.”

True

T/F Put in its ancient context, Song of Songs is a subversive material in a sense that it does not support the dominance of male over female.

True

T or F The Psalms serves to unify the returnees from exile as they reconstruct their life, their city, and the temple in the Promised Land

False

T or F The Psalmists affirms that God would prefer sacrifices and offerings rather than a life lived in humble thanksgiving guided by the ethical precepts of the faith.

False

T or F Job and his three friends were right in assuming that they have enough perspective to understand how God rules the universe

True

T or F The teacher, Ecclesiastes, concludes that all striving is a “chasing after the wind,” yet, he teaches that the key to live a meaningful life is to enjoy the simple things in life as a gift of God.

True

T or F In Proverbs, wisdom and “the fear of the Lord” go together, where fear is an attitude of reverence and awe, a kind of moral mindset that humbly recognizes one’s place before God.

False

T or F True prophets have taken the office by their own initiative because they believe in the truth of the words that they proclaimed

True

T or F The Deuteronomistic historians recount Israel’s history in view of showing that their catastrophes and difficulties are a consequence of disobedience to the covenant.

True

T or F The Tribal system serves as alternative to the statist system where the elders decide about important matters affecting the tribes through consensus with the welfare of the people in mind.

True

T or F Political instability in the land of Israel and leadership crisis are among the factors in the emergence of the monarchy.

TRUE

T or F The Tribal system is a social structure where matters affecting the tribes are decided upon by the elders through consensus with the welfare of the people in mind.

ELIJAH/ELISHA

The ______ message concerns every soul on earth, especially believers living in the closing days of this age. The _______ message calls people to obey the commandments of Yahweh the Almighty God of Israel: particularly those commandments which relate to sexual conduct and pagan festivals.

AMOS

God is just and impartial and will judge not only the nations but also his own people for their life of ease and apathy amid human suffering.

ISAIAH

He speaks of the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ, in a variety of ways—as Branch, Stone, Light, Child and the King

JEREMIAH

The prophet _______ gave a message of heart religion to the people. He invited the Israelites to steer away from that which is superficial to that which is sincere

EZEKIEL

a message of judgment and a message of restoration. He announces God's judgment against Judah for its sins against the covenant and he pronounces God's judgment against the surrounding nations which oppressed Judah.